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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

Motherfucking wind farms…

Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 30/07/2025

🤠 ⛏️ 💎 📈 #Bentley #Asset #Managment 💥 #BAM #Alert: THIS IS A #MUST #WATCH #VIDEO FOR ALL HUMANS!!! Rare earth #NdPr magnets power #everything from electric vehicles and wind turbines to defense equipment, data centers, quantum computers and high-tech consumer electronics. www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Trump will host a private dinner tomorrow for the top buyers of his memecoin, which has made him the world's newest crypto billionaire. The top 25 coin buyers will get a "VIP White House tour." Call it what it is: corruption.

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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Profits made. Profits kept. 🤡 @forbes.com @zacheverson.com www.forbes.com/sites/zachev...

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

Dear press: Why do questions of mental acuity activate only with the prior but not the current administration? Asking for a nation.

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

😎 🌎 📢 #TRUMP's Neo-Nazi MAGA Fascism Cancer Is Metastasizing And Thriving Globally On Elon Musk's X Platform: #SS #HipHop #Propaganda #Innovations #Trump #MAGA #Fascism #NeoNazi #Global #Cancer #Requires #Chemotherapy and #Radiation www.msn.com/en-us/news/t...

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

😎 📢 Given #Trump's Global Tariff War, #Gold Is Up Another $64/oz To Another New High Of $3, 394.90/oz lnkd.in/g4sGrHEb

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

$GDXU [3X Gold Miners ETF]!!! www.msn.com/en-us/money/...

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

#TrumpProof #Technology & #Science: 😎 📢 $GDXU [3X gold miners], $AEM, $NEM, $PSLV $TSLQ and especially rare earth elements mining $MP and $USAR #Inflation #Recession #Hedges #Gold #Silver #Rare #Earth #Elements #REE #Mining #Industry #Manufacturing #Stocks #Investments www.msn.com/en-us/news/o...

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Keith Trujillo @neurochicano.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/02/2025

After a week for the biggest US technology companies that began with a body blow from a Chinese AI upstart and included a batch of pivotal earnings, the biggest surprise may be how well they made it through.

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Magnificent Seven Emerges From Rocky Week Remarkably Unshaken

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NPR @npr.org · 01/02/2025

Siegel is the first American to be released as part of this deal. A total of 18 hostages have been released since the ceasefire took effect. Hundreds Palestinians have been released so far.

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A U.S. dual citizen is among 3 Israeli hostages exchanged for Palestinian prisoners

Siegel is the first American to be released as part of this deal. A total of 18 hostages have been released since the ceasefire took effect. Hundreds of Palestinians have been released so far.

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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 01/02/2025

The California wildfires exposed just how unstable Los Angeles had become.

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LA Needs More Than a Comeback — It Has to Move Forward

The wildfires exposed an uncomfortable truth about the city.

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

😎📈💎📢 Beth Kindig and I/O team are the best Nvidia and tech sector analysts on the planet hand down. Prosper wisely: $NVDA www.linkedin.com/pulse/deepse...

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DeepSeek Creates Buying Opportunity for Nvidia Stock

Below, I provide evidence that DeepSeek is not the black swan that killed Nvidia overnight

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Absolutely fantastic news as sickle cell gene therapy is to be rolled out for sickle cell academia with a one off treatment curing 97% of patients 🧪

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‘Groundbreaking’ potential cure for sickle cell in England approved for NHS use

Clinical trials find one-time gene therapy exa-cel offers ‘functional cure’ in 96.6% of patients

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Roman Goergen @romangoergen.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🌍 Oil vs. Wind: Which Kills More Wildlife? 🐦🐋 🛢️ Oil spills & drilling = mass destruction: 500k–1M birds killed yearly, toxic pollution, habitat loss. ⚡ Wind farms = fewer risks but not none: 234k bird deaths, but impact can be reduced.🧪 www.bbc.com/future/artic... #ClimateCrisis #Wildlife

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Which is worse for wildlife, wind farms or oil drilling?

US President Donald Trump says that wind farms harm birds and whales. Scientists weigh wind power's impacts on wildlife against those of oil and gas.

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Dr Rebecca Wragg Sykes @lemoustier.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🏺🧪🦣 Immensely interesting new, detailed and OA study suggesting cultural cheek piercing - like B in the image here, but one sided & potentially progressively enlarged from adolescence onwards - in a European 'Ice Age' culture 31.5-29.5 ka BP

Figure from paper showing potential ways labrets can be done, and a stylised image of a labret with large flange.

Image from paper showing progressive wear facets on cheek teeth as individuals aged

Text: "Whether or not the labret hypothesis finds support through future research and discoveries, the buccal facets represent a physical manifestation of widespread Pavlovian behavior(s) marking lived experience. With Pavlovian material culture and archaeological signatures of their behaviors, Pettitt (2022) suggested that "Everything was busily expressing Pavlovian identity." The atypical buccal wear facets should also be considered as an embodied aspect of Pavlovian identity, and possibly, a rare example of a dynamic process of culturalization of the human body across a person's lifecourse (see d'Errico et al., 2023; Nowell & Cooke, 2021) during the Late Pleistocene. "

Text: "The above synthesis provides reason to hypothesize that the atypical buccal wear facets on the teeth of Pavlovian peoples are caused by labrets worn through buccal piercings. An evaluation of the patterning of facet prevalence by age suggests that the piercing of one cheek occurred in adolescence and the enlarging and/or addition of a second labret occurred later in life. Thus, cross-sectional analyses suggest that labret wear is the physical manifestation of the dynamic
transformation of social identities throughout the lifetime. "

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Parasite - The Journal @parasitejournal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗽𝗮𝗽𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗣𝗔𝗥𝗔𝗦𝗜𝗧𝗘: Identification of two new genetic loci for high-resolution genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi 🧪 #openaccess www.parasite-journal.org/articles/par... [𝘼𝙗𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙩 𝙞𝙣 𝘼𝙇𝙏]

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In addition to the ribosomal internal transcribed spacer (ITS) locus, four loci (MS1, MS3, MS4, and MS7) have been identified to develop multilocus sequence typing tools for high-resolution genotyping of Enterocytozoon bieneusi in previous studies. However, the use of only five loci was insufficient for population genetic analysis of E. bieneusi from diverse hosts. In this study, comparison of a clinical genome sequence (C44566) with the whole genome sequence of an E. bieneusi isolate (H348) in GenBank led to the selection of the hypothetical protein 1 (hp1) and tubulin 1 (tub1) loci. Further analysis of the two loci with 156 E. bieneusi-positive samples showed high sequence polymorphisms in ITS Groups 1–6 and 10. Altogether, 30 and 23 sequence types were identified at hp1 and tub1, respectively. Genotyping based on the two loci confirmed the lack of genetic differentiation between Group 1 and Group 2 genotypes, as previously reported. Moreover, the genotypes in Groups 4 and 5 are more divergent from other genotypes within Groups 1–10. However, isolates in Group 11 and 12 could not be amplified at the hp1 and tub1 loci, supporting the previous conclusion of genetic uniqueness of the two genotype groups. The identified genetic markers and generated data could be used to develop a multilocus sequence typing tool for high-resolution genotyping of E. bieneusi, which would also have implications for understanding the taxonomy of Enterocytozoon spp., the public health significance of E. bieneusi in animals, and sources of E. bieneusi infections in humans.

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Julia Dunn @dunnimmunolab.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

All of this is directly linked with slavery. The belief that black peoples’ bodies are fundamentally different was used to justify slavery, on the grounds that their muscles and bones were stronger and they could withstand extreme heat. 1/3

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Prof Sam Illingworth @samillingworth.com · 31/01/2025

🌍📊 Mapping global progress on SDGs A new study reveals nations follow distinct paths in achieving Sustainable Development Goals, with some key indicators remaining neglected. The ‘SDG space’ helps track disparities and identify overlooked priorities 🔗 doi.org/10.1038/s414... #SDGs #SciComm 🧪

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The disparities and development trajectories of nations in achieving the sustainable development goals - Nature Communications

Applying economic complexity methods, this study maps global progress toward the SDGs, uncovering distinct development paths and disparities among 166 countries. It highlights overlooked areas in sust...

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ESO @eso.org · 31/01/2025

There's a star about to become visible to the naked eye...once again! Tune in to the latest episode of #ChasingStarlight to meet T Coronae Borealis. Erupting every 80 years or so, it will shine bright enough for you to see it with the naked eye. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZPp... 🔭 🧪

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The star that should have exploded already: T Coronae Borealis

YouTube video by ESO Chasing Starlight

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Eliza_coli @eliza-coli.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It's not all about bacteria and antibiotics - the global threat of antimicrobial resistance ( #AMR ) involves fungi too... #PathogenPortraits 🧪🐡 #microsky

Pathogen portrait of Aspergillus. A black and white cartoon of the fungus hyphae with a head of conidiae releasing spores on a pale blue scratchy splashy background with the word Aspergillus written at the bottom.

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PLOS Biology @plosbiology.org · 31/01/2025

Maintaining a youthful proteome is key during aging, but how? This study in #Drosophila shows that the E2 enzyme UBE2D/eff, levels of which decline with skeletal muscle #aging, is important to ensure protein quality control and maintain a youthful #proteome 🧪 @plosbiology.org plos.io/3CDYb8b

Left: Schematic showing how the ubiquitin-conjugating enzyme UBE2D/eff has a key role in proteostasis in skeletal muscle by maintaining optimal proteasome activity. UBE2D/eff protein levels decline during aging. Experimentally reducing UBE2D/eff levels from a young age causes a loss in protein quality control, a consequent precocious surge in the levels of insoluble poly-ubiquitinated proteins (which normally accumulate only in old age because of age-associated defects in proteostasis), and shortens lifespan. Right: Insoluble protein aggregates (pink) accumulate during aging in between myofibrils (green; i.e., the muscle contractile apparatus). Image credit: Jianqin Jiao (Demontis lab).

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

To provide some more info about the tectonic setting of this lithium mine and the Salton Sea, here is a map from Rockwell and Klinger (2023) with many of the major faults. This area also experiences relatively frequent earthquake swarms & contains active volcanoes. (All related of course.) 🧪⚒️

Fig. 1. Map of the southern Salton Trough region showing the extent of prehistoric Lake Cahuilla, the present-day Salton Sea, major faults, selected prior study sites along the Imperial fault, and this study area. Orange hexagons are larger towns. The 1979 rupture is indicated in blue along the northern third of the fault, whereas the 1940 earthquake ruptured end-to-end. From Rockwell and Klinger (2023).

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Jascha Polet @jascha.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

It is somewhat surprising to me that the words earthquake or seismic hazard do not appear once in this article about a new lithium mine near the Salton Sea, involving wastewater reinjection. ⚒️🧪 laist.com/news/climate...

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Massive Salton Sea lithium project gets judge’s go-ahead, ending advocates’ lawsuit

Social and environmental groups claimed the project could cause water and air problems not disclosed in an environmental impact report.

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David Blanchflower BSc @davidbflower.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

This week's sky at a glance, January 31- February 9. Very useful Sky & Telescope observing guide by Alan MacRobert. 🔭 🧪 skyandtelescope.org/astronomy-ne...

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This Week's Sky at a Glance, January 31 – February 9

The Moon pairs up with Saturn, then Venus. On Feb. 5th, the Moon occults some of the Pleiades. The Winter Hexagon fills much of the sky.

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Arctic sea ice extent lowest on record for the date 🧪 #GreenSky

Detail of Arctic sea ice chart showing extent for 30/1/2025 lowest since 1979 at 13.49 million km²

Full year Arctic sea ice chart showing extent for 30/1/2025 lowest since 1979 at 13.49 million km²

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Helena Klara Jambor @helenajambor.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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kinesinmotors.bsky.social @kinesinmotors.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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Kevin Pluck @kevpluck.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Second lowest Arctic sea ice extent for January on record 🧪#GreenSky

Chart of January Average Arctic Sea Ice Extent showing 2025 at 13.10 million km²

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Mark Peifer (He, him) @peiferlabunc.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Remarkable new analyses of samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu The building blocks of life, including nucleotides and amino acids, are apparently widespread in the solar system 🧪 www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Abundant ammonia and nitrogen-rich soluble organic matter in samples from asteroid (101955) Bennu

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Organic matter in meteorites reveals clues about early Solar System chemistry and the origin of molecules important to life, but terrestrial exposure complicates interpretation. Samples returned from the B-type asteroid Bennu by the Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, and Security–Regolith Explorer mission enabled us to study pristine carbonaceous astromaterial without uncontrolled exposure to Earth’s biosphere. Here we show that Bennu samples are volatile rich, with more carbon, nitrogen and ammonia than samples from asteroid Ryugu and most meteorites. Nitrogen-15 isotopic enrichments indicate that ammonia and other N-containing soluble molecules formed in a cold molecular cloud or the outer protoplanetary disk. We detected amino acids (including 14 of the 20 used in terrestrial biology), amines, formaldehyde, carboxylic acids, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and N-heterocycles (including all five nucleobases found in DNA and RNA), along with ~10,000 N-bearing chemical species. All chiral non-protein amino acids were racemic or nearly so, implying that terrestrial life’s left-handed chirality may not be due to bias in prebiotic molecules delivered by impacts. The relative abundances of amino acids and other soluble organics suggest formation and alteration by low-temperature reactions, possibly in NH3-rich fluids. Bennu’s parent asteroid developed in or accreted ices from a reservoir in the outer Solar System where ammonia ice was stable.

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The Times and Sunday Times @thetimes.com · 31/01/2025

Hamas and its allied militant group Palestinian Islamic Jihad freed eight more hostages from Gaza on Thursday in chaotic scenes that briefly threatened the ceasefire deal with Israel ⬇️

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Hamas releases last female Israeli soldier and potato farmer, 80

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The Japan Times @japantimes.co.jp · 31/01/2025

Japan scrambled jets as Russian bombers flew nearby its airspace Friday, but Moscow insists the flights follow international law.

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Japan scrambles jets as Russian bombers fly over high seas

Russia reportedly announced that its long-range strategic bombers flew over international waters in the Sea of Japan and the Sea of Okhotsk.

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The Hindu @thehindu.com · 31/01/2025

The quick commerce platform #Zepto on Friday announced that it has started delivering the latest models of #Vivo phones across #India. Both companies partnered to expand their businesses and reach new customers who prefer this new delivery approach within minutes. www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/tec...

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Zepto starts delivering select Vivo phones across India

The quick commerce platform Zepto on Friday announced that it has started delivering the latest models of Vivo phones across India

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Gregory V. Bentley, MS, CTO, ASCP, ARSO @gregbentley20.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

😎📈 #BAM #Alert: 📢 #AST #SpaceMobile (💎$ASTS) Receives Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Special Authority Full Approval For First-Ever #5G Satellite Direct To Basic Smartphone Communications In The United States With Both Strategic Partners AT&T And Verizon www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...

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AST SpaceMobile Announces FCC Grant Of Special Temporary Authority (STA) In the United States with Strategic Partners AT&T And Verizon

AST SpaceMobile, Inc. (“AST SpaceMobile”) (NASDAQ: ASTS), the company building the first and only space-based cellular broadband network accessible di

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Mark Davison @bigexperiment.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Very cool if this stem-cell-derived heart patch works in wider trials. Lab-grown tissue has endless potential in medicine (and food). 🧪

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Scientists trial implant to patch up the heart

The technology could give patients with advanced heart failure new hope, based on early trial results.

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